To bad it would be easy for others to start up. Yet projects like GUIMiner work great.

Start up, yes. Actually earn anything? No. The default client used CPU, couldn't be pointed at a pool, so you were basically trying to find a shard of glass in the ocean. Was it possible you'd find a block and earn 50BTC? Sure. Was it probable? No.

That's why they took it out of the latest builds of the client. There's really no point. You'd have better odds laying down $1 on the State Lottery.

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